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Ann Romney Snaps at GOP Critics: ‘Stop it. This is Hard.’

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In audio obtained by The Last Word, Ann Romney loses her shit on an Iowa radio station in response to a question about GOP critics who are calling her husband’s campaign a clusterfuck:

“Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it? Get in the ring. This is hard. And, you know, it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now and it’s an important election and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”

Oh cry me a river, Miss Ann. It’s hard for you?

Pshaw.

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  5. 5.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I kinda feel sorry for her. When she was asked back when about how she felt about Mitt running for President again, she said something along the lines of “Mitt won’t be fulfilled without this.” So she knows nothing she or her family has to offer will “fulfill” Mitt and then on top of this deadening realization, she has to get out there and sing and dance for him or he’ll hurt Ralfaca real bad.

  6. 6.

    freelancer

    Is it just me or is mediaite’s player/server slow as balls? I have really fast internet, but this thing buffers like I’m trying to watch a movie in the year 1999.

  7. 7.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    Didn’t old Dumbya also discover that Prezniting was hard work?

    Why is it always such a surprise to Republicans that things to do with government, even when they do it the stupid way they do it, are difficult?

  8. 8.

    Or something like that.Suffern Ace

    Well you have to admit there was every reason for her to expect 100 percent commitment from republicans after the discipline they showed against gore and Kerry. Why they don’t give them the respect they’re entitled to is beyond me. Perhaps they’re just not fans.

  9. 9.

    BGinCHI

    Wait, I thought comedy was hard.

    Also, according to Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.

    For the Romneys, I guess the wailing is the hardest part.

  10. 10.

    replicnt6

    It’s time you people realized that this is an important election and how blessed you are to have Mitt as a candidate.

  12. 12.

    JCT

    Jesus, Ann is just a full-on parody of a human being. Forget about living in a bubble, she’s basically been hermetically sealed off. It’s really like she is beginning to realize that for ONCE she can’t buy something she wants and it is driving her nuts.

    To quote Tbogg – SHUT UP DUMB LADY.

  14. 14.

    BGinCHI

    Ronin:

    “Lady, I never walk into a place I don’t know how to get out of.”

    Mitt: you are not an honorable man.

  21. 21.

    Kathy in St. Louis

    I think I’m beginning to see why Romney said they were using her sparingly so that the public woudn’t get tired of her. I’m tired of her already.

    She’s certainly a big help, isn’t she?

  22. 22.

    amk

    When you hubby unit is shooting his foot repeatedly, ann dear, it’s his own gun that is doing all the shootin’.

  23. 23.

    Dennis SGMM

    Ann thought that the grateful peasantry would great Mighty Mitt with strewn flowers everywhere he went. Mitt seems to have overlooked actually sitting down and talking with people outside of his bubble in his never ending run for the presidency.

    Talk about a sense of entitlement.

  26. 26.

    JCT

    @Dennis SGMM:

    Ann thought that the grateful peasantry would great Mighty Mitt with strewn flowers everywhere he went. Mitt seems to have overlooked actually sitting down and talking with people outside of his bubble in his never ending run for the presidency.

    I’m beginning to think she thought this would really happen.

  27. 27.

    Joseph Nobles

    What if Mitt doesn’t give a concession speech? After losing the presidency, what would he have to lose? Just watch the numbers come in, get in the jet, and head to Galt Canyon. In my book, that’d be the perfect ending to this campaign. That and the House flipping.

  30. 30.

    dance around in your bones

    OT (and on lefty coast) but Colbert is killing me tonight with his Colbert Gigante Reporto en español – I’m dyin’ here.

  31. 31.

    Mark S.

    Does it seem like Ann does a hell of a lot of interviews for a candidate’s spouse? Well, I guess if your candidate can’t even go on Fox without tripping over his dick you kind of need to do that.

  32. 32.

    Geoduck

    Put me in the camp that says she REALLY didn’t want to do this campaign at all, and she’s gritting her teeth until it’s over, and she no longer has to deal with You People.

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    Am guessing if she became first lady her signature campaign would be returning sterling flatware to America’s dining tables. Nine-piece settings, of course.

  37. 37.

    dance around in your bones

    Ann Romney means nothing to me. Zip, zilch, nada, nunca, zero, poco, ninguna, not a damn thing.

    That is all.

  38. 38.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist and Fact Checker

    There are people who make Ann Romney look likable and normal, and fortunately, don’t know enough to protect Ann Romney from herself:

    giddily relaying how Ann Romney, for whom Georgette has served on the host committee for several fundraisers in New York, privately reacted to Democratic attacks on her dressage-competing mare. (“My horse has more style and more class in its hoof than they do in their whole deal,” Lyn recounts.)

    If you’ve been a political junkie as long as I have, you’ll guess the last name of the odious Georgette.

  40. 40.

    Hill Dweller

    @amk:

    Wasn’t gopolitico and its ilk spouting her as a ‘game changer’ just a month back ? Wonder what happened.

    They were trying to shape peoples’ perceptions at Willard’s behest. The wingnut base will believe anything they’re told.

    In reality, she was a liability during both of Willard’s campaigns in Massachusetts.

  41. 41.

    Dennis SGMM

    In an attempt to reach out to the middle class Romney is now promising a chicken in every pot and a car in every elevator.

  42. 42.

    dance around in your bones

    @PeakVT:

    No, but he dressed up in a pink suit with two large-breasted women on either side.

    His Spanish wasn’t too bad, either. ;)

  43. 43.

    Ash Can

    Whose bright fucking idea was it to have her talking to the press, anyway? That person should be fired-ass fired from the campaign. Even if it’s Mitt himself.

  44. 44.

    ? Martin

    @Mark S.: Michelle did a lot as well. Difference is that Michelle delivered her own message. Ann just seems to remind us over and over that if we had sex with Mitt, we’d want to vote for him. No message.

  49. 49.

    Turgidson

    @Joseph Nobles:

    Given how much of a contemptible piece of shit Romney has revealed himself to be, I actually am wondering what his concession speech will be like, and I think it is an actual possibility that he just wouldn’t give one. He’s that much of an entitled asshole.

    McCain seemed like an entitled asshole in 2008 – hell, so did Hillary once she fell impossibly behind in delegates, but Mitt is exponentially worse – exponentially doesn’t even cover it. McCain has a soul – it’s shriveled up and atrophied and barely breathing, but it’s there. And he gave a pretty classy concession speech. And Hillary has redeemed herself 10x over with her kick ass performance at State. Mitt? Really don’t think so. He’s a fucking asshole to the bone.

    And he’s such an arrogant fuck that I don’t think he’ll be able to accept his defeat to “that one”. He’ll either refuse to give a speech out of pique, or it will be an angry, bitter rant with a 5% chance of dropping the niCLANG bomb or something similar.

  51. 51.

    trollhattan

    Dear lord, crew of the WMR Failboat get bonuses. H/T TBogg

    Mitt Romney’s campaign handed out $112,500 in bonuses to four of its top staffers, according to new disclosure records filed Thursday.
    __
    Richard Beeson, Romney’s national political director, received a $37,500 payment on Aug. 31, in addition to his monthly salary of $13,750, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
    __
    In addition, campaign manager Matt Rhoades, policy advisor Lanhee Chen and communications director Gail Gitcho each received $25,000 payments on the same date, filings show. The trio are also paid at the same rate as Beeson, which works out to an annual equivalent of $165,000.

  52. 52.

    AA+ Bonds

    Ann Romney is the wife of a Massachusetts Republican politician . . . in every possible way, she is unused to the Little People talking back at her

    Here’s your keystone to Ann Romney:

    it’s an important thing that we’re doing right now . . . and it is time for all Americans to realize how significant this . . . is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how to be able to have the opportunity

    Ann Romney’s father was a miner-turned-engineer-turned-business-owner and a vocal atheist who was baptized after his death by Mitt and Ann, and if you look at this quote you will understand exactly how Ann Romney views her courtship and marriage with Mitt – that she could never be grateful enough that this incredibly successful Mormon businessman would swoop in and run her life for her and give her everything she wanted and the very least she could do was submit to him utterly

    I doubt she has any idea why the rest of the United States does not feel the same way about “the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being [she’s] ever known in [her] life” – the sad part is that she is both the victim and the nefarious brainwashing conspiracy itself

  53. 53.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Ann, if you can’t stand the heat, get your help out of the kitchen.

    On edit: Gwangung got there first.

    /bow

  54. 54.

    Hill Dweller

    @? Martin:

    Michelle did a lot as well. Difference is that Michelle delivered her own message. Ann just seems to remind us over and over that if we had sex with Mitt, we’d want to vote for him. No message.

    The treatment of Michelle in ’08 and Ann in ’12 is a microcosm of the media’s treatment of both political parties. Ann gets undeserved praise simple because she is the Republican candidate’s wife, while Michelle was considered a liability in the press, despite being the far more effective surrogate.

  57. 57.

    Dennis SGMM

    @Turgidson:

    “I guess that you people don’t want the Curse of Ham lifted from the White House. I guess all of you moochers decided to drain the last bit of life out of this country. Well, you won’t have Mitt Romney to kick around any more.”

  59. 59.

    YellowJournalism

    She’s the presidential wife version of the talking Barbie: “Running for President is hard.”

  60. 60.

    Mark S.

    So does anyone think Mitt can turn it around in the debates?

    That wasn’t a serious question. I am looking forward to the town hall debate. Mitt’s always so at ease when he’s fielding questions from the commoners.

  62. 62.

    dance around in your bones

    @AA+ Bonds:

    I doubt she has any idea why the rest of the United States does not feel the same way about “the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being [she’s] ever known in [her] life”.</blockquot

    Well, perhaps we haven't seen him unzipped like she has. Then we would feel pity, at least.

    eta: fuck trying to fix the blockquote. I’m sure y’all can figure it out.

    ETA + + of course it fixed itself. FYWP. Or Thanks, I don’t know.

  63. 63.

    YellowJournalism

    Ann Romney always looks like she’s holding in a massive fart. I bet if she just went behind a door and let one rip, she’d come back out as a more pleasant person.

  65. 65.

    AA+ Bonds

    @Mark S.:

    So does anyone think Mitt can turn it around in the debates?

    It will definitely be his chance to try harder to grind the 1998 Obama video Fox News has been pimping into the media rug. And hey maybe “I Don’t Want To Wait” by Paula Cole will come back too, maybe that will happen

    I think that is pretty much his only chance to move his numbers, that or another super-surprise-Obama-said-he’s-a-Chicom-agent-once line because the debate series is the 209,309,959th “media event” that makes the political press into motherfucking idiots who all repeat the same three-word quote 24/7 for a week

  69. 69.

    Turgidson

    @Mark S.:

    The moderators are pushovers, so I think Romney might be able to sail through repeating his mendacious talking points and get high marks from the Villagers for his poise or gravitas or some shit.

    But that won’t be good enough to alter the race, because I simply can’t comprehend Obama crashing and burning badly enough to give him that opening unless Mitt hires goons to dope him up on LSD or something beforehand.

  70. 70.

    Cmm

    Amen to what ABL said. I just can’t understand all the Michelle hate. She is gorgeous, classy, has some great First Lady interests and is raising 2 lovely daughters. And she and the Prez seem to have a sincere, genuine love and respect for each other.

  71. 71.

    azlib

    I am sure the professionals in the Romney campaign were cringing. They sure are not managing this couple very well.

  72. 72.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Cmm:

    Michelle is BLAH.

    Sure, she’s gorgeous, classy, has some great First Lady interests and is raising 2 lovely daughters.

    But she’s BLAH.

    What more reason do they need to hate her?

  73. 73.

    trollhattan

    @Turgidson: He’ll be bonin’ up on thosethe Sarah(tm) debate tape to see how he can sell the “I’m not answerin’ your lamestream media gotcha’ questions, I’m gonna’ tell the American people what they want to know.” line.

    Should be nooo problem for a chatty fellow such as Willard.

  74. 74.

    wasabi gasp

    “…how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how to be able to have the opportunity to run this country.”

    Indeed. Obama can use all the help he can get.

  79. 79.

    gwangung

    @? Martin:

    Michelle did a lot as well. Difference is that Michelle delivered her own message.

    Michelle, drunk on tequilla and nursing a ten aspirin hangover, and running on 30 minutes sleep over two days, is a better candidate than Mitt could ever be on his best days.

  80. 80.

    KG

    @Turgidson: Mitt strikes me as the prototypical “good Mormon”, I honest doubt that he’s ever cussed in his life, so I can’t imagine him being the one to drop the n-bomb in a concession speech. That said, he does seem like a self-entitled arrogant prick of mythological proportions, so I could see him not giving a concession speech.

    Then again, in 2008 he did give a speech when he withdrew from the primary.

  82. 82.

    ZB IV

    Obama’s method is simple. If the opposition is crazy, just feed rope. They’ll eventually do something so insane and outrageous that it’ll become clear to even Americans only paying a little attention that they’re batsh*t crazy.

    At some point, even the black guy looks better than the crazy.

    Me personally, I’m just finally happy to have a president that I’m confident is far smarter than me. I don’t think Dubya was truly dumb, he just wasn’t smart enough to be a good president. Clinton wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t that smart. Obama is the real deal. His patience and intelligence will be something we’ll truly appreciate years from now when he’s gone.

    (And we’ll be happy to see him become a Supreme Court Justice someday if we’re lucky).

    And yes, I’m an Obot despite the civil liberty disappointments. We could’ve done on gorram of a bunch worse.

  83. 83.

    TaMara (BHF)

    attacks a black woman could be expected to face and continue to refrain from setting motherfuckers on fire.

    I really felt like her beautiful, graceful, heartfelt speech at the convention came directly from that experience…that and how Pres. Obama is treated on a daily basis. She rose above all that, but that emotion and that passion, I felt was fueled by those experiences.

    She’s a better woman than I am, because I’d have forgone the velvet glove and went straight for blood and pain.

  90. 90.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Turgidson:

    ..unless Mitt hires goons to dope [Obama] up on LSD or something beforehand.

    Nah, that wouldn’t do it. I don’t think there’s a soul on the planet who could maintain while tripping as well as Obama could. It’d be like, OK, wow, that blue curtain’s REALLY BLUE. Deep breath. Huh. I can see what he’s saying before it comes out of his mouth.

    And then bring the hammer down. And smile.

  91. 91.

    GxB

    @trollhattan: This was the brain-trust who devised the whole “wait for Obama to make a mistake and pounce” strategy. Well all that bread will help pay down their tab with the ACME corporation.

  94. 94.

    Hypatia's Momma

    Stop it. This is hard.

    You think this is hard, Ann? Yeah, it’s just interviewing for a job with only one open position (this crazy economy!) and your competitor is: better-educated, more personable, has demonstrated skill for working well with others, has done special projects directly relating to the requirements of the actual postion (before and after getting the job), and understands what a “work ehtic” is.

    Yeah, it’s hard. It would be much harder if you actually had to work at this job.

  97. 97.

    ZB IV

    @GxB:

    Agreed. You’re going to be waiting quite a while for Obama to truly foul up.

    There’s a valid Jackie Robinson comparison here. If you’re going to be the first black president, you can’t just be as good as the average president, you’ve got to be better than than the average, by a fairly wide margin.

  98. 98.

    Turgidson

    @trollhattan:

    No doubt. He’ll certainly try, though he’ll come off like a total prick when he does. “Yeah, I heard your question. I’d rather lie about how Obama gutted welfare instead, if you don’t mind, Jim.”

  99. 99.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @GxB:

    This was the brain-trust

    Why past tense?

    These guys are busy at this very moment, boldly going where no campaign has gone before, exploring the outer limits, if you will, of FAIL.

    They’ve got a month and a half to go! Who knows where they’ll wind up?

    There are more pooches to be screwed, all sorts of chickens that haven’t been fucked yet, these guys are just getting warmed up!

  100. 100.

    mdblanche

    What an unpleasant sounding woman. In fairness, she’s probably not used to people she considers the help talking back to her husband.

  101. 101.

    Turgidson

    @KG:

    Yeah, but McCain was in the Club. Richer than sin old white guy with a stick up his ass.

    These guys just.can’t.handle.losing.to.Obama. McCain managed to pull it together and lose graciously, but I just don’t think Mitt has it in him. Too much of a twit.

  102. 102.

    pattonbt

    @Mark S.: While I dont think he can turn it around, his expectations will be so low and the Village will demand the horse race meme continue, that by the mere fact of showing up he will be deemed “the winner” in more than half the post debate wraps.

    That said, I think to the average veiwer he will bomb. He just doesnt have that gift to make a connection and he has no core. The smirks, the stiffness, the needy smile, the smarminess. Just on personality alone, Mitt’s already lost and head to head the difference will be staggering.

    My bet is Obama plays it safe. Keeps the jabs to a minimum, doesnt go for any knockout blows and just by using his usual warm persona, walks away with a neat and tidy win in each debate. No drama, no pain.

    But I guarantee Mitt’s performance will be graded on the lowest of low curves. Wont make a difference in the big picture though.

  105. 105.

    Turgidson

    @ZB IV:

    Clinton wasn’t bad, but he wasn’t that smart.

    Really? He has faults and blind spots the size of elephants, but I always thought Clinton was extremely intelligent. I’m not sure who I think is smarter between him and Obama.

    We haven’t had a GOP president as smart as either of them since…hell, Teddy Roosevelt? Honest Abe? I don’t know. Nixon was no dummy, but he was more clever than brilliant. And a lying sonuvabitch of course.

  106. 106.

    1badbaba3

    @Dennis SGMM: There was someone, I forget who it was, who thought we would be greeted as liberators in the Iraq. I think maybe it was in a beauty contest, or some reality show. Anyway, I wonder how that greety, liberatey thing worked out?

  108. 108.

    GxB

    @ZB IV: And that is undeniable. Course I think it’s true for any Dem Pres from now until the GoP-esque party implodes. Given our collective selfish and scared culture – we’re gonna be clinging to guns and gawd until something huge dope-slaps us back to our senses.

    @Villago Delenda Est: Now that’s the spirit! I stand cheerfully corrected.

  109. 109.

    mattH

    @Mnemosyne:

    So much for that White Horse Prophecy, huh, Ann?

    Or maybe she’s trying to invoke it through her repetitions of ” how significant this election is and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience”. Oftentimes converts are more deeply influenced by that kinda stuff.

  110. 110.

    ZBIV

    @Turgidson: If I wasn’t drinking I probably would’ve put the “that” in all caps. Clinton is a pretty smart cat. He’s certainly the gold standard of explaining policy to dumb people. I think Obama is even smarter.

  115. 115.

    freelancer

    @Turgidson:

    We haven’t had a GOP president as smart as either of them since…hell, Teddy Roosevelt? Honest Abe? I don’t know. Nixon was no dummy, but he was more clever than brilliant. And a lying sonuvabitch of course.

    You forgot Eisenhower.

  116. 116.

    GG

    I dunno, why didn’t Ann ask Babs for advice about how to handle the plebs? I mean, that evil woman had great PR for years.

  117. 117.

    JoyfulA

    My recollection is that Ann went to live with the Romneys when Mitt went on his extended French trip. She was 16 and to be sheltered. I’m assuming she finished high school at the girls’ finishing school she had been attending.

    Did she ever get any further education? I know they married and she lived with him and had babies when he was getting his double masters, but did she get any education of her own while he was getting his? Did she want to? Is she smart enough to have really benefited from her own education or to have absorbed a lot as he studied?

    She may just be this very sheltered, minimally educated woman who has little understanding of the real world—any real world that any of us are familiar with, not even the Mormon world, as they’ve spent little time in Utah, just the Olympics. She may be way out of her depth whenever she’s out of her own house.

    What can she discuss with anybody on a talk show, at a fund-raising dinner party, or at a reception for a prime minister that goes beyond how swell Mitt is (not in any depth, even that, because she has no one to compare with Mitt)?

    I’m writing myself into feeling sorry for the poor little rich woman.

  118. 118.

    Turgidson

    @freelancer:

    Ike was a smart cookie, true. He isn’t often described as an intellectual titan exactly, but he did play a starring role in winning a freaking world war and had a solid 2 terms as president, so I’ll give him his due. You can’t do that much awesome with being pretty freaking smart.

  119. 119.

    AHH onna Droid

    @jshooper: Krystal Ball who? Karen Finney is my campaign season crush.

    As for Democratic women not getting the love, the Village hate them for having careers and passion about serious things instead of being cocktail party ninnies who can ‘ both sides do it’ because the reigning powers surely won’t affect their lives. There is also the element that resents, envies, fears, or all of the above a strong smart capable woman who knows her own mind and has worked outside the home.

  122. 122.

    Carl Nyberg

    What kinda a man is Mitt Romney to send his wife out to embarrass herself?

    Mitt Romney should pay the money and get her the staff she needs to prepare for interviews.

    If she’s already gotten the help and it just doesn’t work for her then the Romney campaign should stop sending her out to do media appearances.

    She is not helping to humanize Mitt Romney. She seems like an arrogant sociopath and a whiner.

    And Romney looks weak sending his wife out to make a fool of herself.

  123. 123.

    Beauzeaux

    @JoyfulA:

    She went to Brigham Young University and majored in French with a minor in Religious Zealotry. She graduated in 1975.

    It’s not unusual for Mormon women to be educated. The upper class ones, anyway.

  124. 124.

    kay

    I find Ann Romney’s approach to women really off-putting. She seems to have decided that women are looking for a husband in the President, which is just bizarre. The constant references to what we (women) want in a “Guy” are way too personal.

    I also think showing empathy and understanding is very different than showing pity. Ann Romney seems to feel sorry for other women, and that’s not appealing, it’s demeaning. I have almost a knee-jerk reaction to what I imagine she thinks are “sympathetic” statements about women; I don’t think she should feel sorry for me.

  125. 125.

    Randy P

    @trollhattan: I obviously wasn’t brought up right because I have no idea what a “nine-piece setting” would be.

    Lets see:
    Regular fork
    Salad fork
    Shrimp fork
    Tea spoon
    Soup spoon
    Regular knife
    Stiletto
    Throwing knife

    … that’s eight. What am I missing?

  128. 128.

    Patricia Kayden

    Lady Ann is angry that you people are stopping her husband from being coronated King of all the Americas.

    That’s one bitter, entitled woman.

  129. 129.

    Patricia Kayden

    @KG: Is there some rule that he has to give a concession speech? I’ve already believed for a while that if The Bot loses, he will give a very nasty concession speech, where he says that the American people were duped by the “lamestream” media and Obama’s lies. I can’t imagine, given his personal attacks against President Obama, that he will feel the need to give a gracious concession speech.

    Why should he? His supporters hate Obama with a fiery passion and he’ll never run for anything again. He has nothing to lose. His unfavorable ratings are already sky high and at that point he and Lady Ann won’t feel the need to grin and bear anything.

  130. 130.

    jrg

    So, her husband picked a zero-sum fight that even a quarter billion dollars in personal wealth can’t win, and she’s whining about it? Jesus Christ – does she think life has been fair for all the middle class people her husband has screwed over?

    Have a caffeine free coke and a smile, and shut the fuck up, Ann Romney.

  131. 131.

    Chris

    @Xecky Gilchrist:

    Because their worldview demands that all government things be easy and ridiculous shit that their gardener could perform with his eyes closed. If it’s not, then maybe their image of government is flawed. Worse, maybe all those useless government employees they love to sneer at from behind their computers ate actually earning every penny they make.

  134. 134.

    ET

    I’m guessing that part of her problem is that she didn’t have any idea how hard this was going to be and this is her frustration bubbling out.

    Her life as wife of Mitt has likely been filled to the brim with people whose job it is to make her life easy with little to no effort on her part to make that happen. With also little to no accountability or problems that she personally, would have to deal with.

    Running for president is hard and does take work. Even with a campaign staff and volunteers number in the thousands kissing your feet, there are thousands of people on the other side whose job it is to push their candidate and not assist you. Yes there are people in this world that don’t rely on you for their jobs and don’t feel the need to make your life easier.

  135. 135.

    bcinaz

    …and how lucky we are to have someone with Mitt’s qualifications and experience and know how…

    Axelrod and Messina probably thank FSM everyday for their luck.

  136. 136.

    ottercliff

    Dear Ann,

    You’re right it is hard. And people like yourself and Willard should not have to do anything hard. For the life of me, I can’t understand why you did not simply hire some of the people to do the campaigning and secure the White House for you.

    But, most wealthy girl, the White House is not for you. Smallish, old construction, stables removed many, many years ago. Where will Faluca be groomed? No car elevator, in fact no garage to store your precious Cadillacs. I’m sure the servants are absolutely dreadful!

    Fly away Ann!

  137. 137.

    Tonybrown74

    Is anyone else having a Gypsy Rose Lee moment whenever she talks about her and her husband’s turn in the White House?

  139. 139.

    kamalokitty

    Dear Mrs. Romney: You don’t know what “hard” is.

    P.S. Get another job. You’re not qualified to be FLOTUS. You don’t have enough class.

  141. 141.

    Captain C

    @Villago Delenda Est: Not only that, she’s not acting like they think a BLAH should, i.e. she’s not a mooching, lazy, single mom with problem children who lives to suck off the government’s teat. She’s actually got class, intelligence, and one hell of a husband to go with two great kids, so she’s a danger to their worldview.

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